—I'll tell you mine! I was a pirate! A really, really fearsome pirate! My ship was really massive and very elegant. I had Claude—the first mate, of course—spruce it up white so that it would look like a large cloud come down from the sky to float on the tops of the waves.
We decorated it with only the finest of diamonds and rubies and oh! how it glistened in morning light. I even got a little tan, all golden, and everything. And, we plundered and we pillaged and we danced and we sang, and even though, the lot of us were criminals we were very merry. Yo ho! You know, 'yo ho' right, Nill?
[ he is all activity when he speaks, too. waving his hands. gesturing exuberantly, as though he's trying to paint her an invisible portrait of his made-up boat. ]